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BRIDLE BIT. No. 255.737. Patented Mar. 278.1882.

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' HORACE 'S. SQUIER, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BRlDLE-BIT.

' SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent N0. 255,737, dated March 28, 1882,

Application filed January 21, 1881. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern lar material is used for a covering for the mouth-piece; and it consists in a recessed head or bulb, open toward the mouth-piece to allow the end of the tubing to enter the bulb and be protected therein and also in a divided end ot' the tubing, allowing part ofit to be outside of the bulb.

Figure l is a longitudinal elevation, partly in section. Fig. 2 is a detailed view, showing a modification. Figs. 3 and 4 also are detailed views.

My. bit is made with the head or bulb O, having a recess, D, and tongue or shank E, fitted to be riveted or otherwise secured to a flexible core or mouth-piece, K.

The recess may be in any form, and any form of cheeks F may be used, and the eye G for the beam B may go through the bulb outside of the recess or through the recess.

The beam maybe cast into the eye or be otherwise inserted. The bulb has a round or oval form, the latter seen in Fig. 3.

In addition to end of the tubing T entering the bulb, Imake the end with an outside sec- 5 tion, I, (shown in Fig. 2,) extending to the cheek, and made to cover the inside of the bulb and keep the horses lips from contact with the metal.

In manufacturing my bits one bulb is at- 0 tached to the core, when the tubingis slipped on with the end made to enter the recess D. The tubing is then pressed down along the core, so that the other bulb may be attached and the end of the tubing be made to enter the recess in this bulb, when the bit is completed.

I claim- 1. The combination, in a flexible bridle-bit, of the head-or bulb 0, having the recess D and the tongue or shank E, to which the end of the flexible core K is riveted, and the flexible covering T, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. A bridle-bit having the head or bulb U constructed and arranged substantially as described and shown, in combination with a flexible covering, T, said covering being provided with the section I, substantially as and for th purpose set forth.

HORACE S. SQUIER. 

